The Brookhaven leader., 1887-10-20
MIR. DAVIS ANSWERED
nISHOP GALLOWAY RE-
PLIES TO THE SAGE'S
OPEN LETTER AND SPIKES
EVERY GUN.
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RRooKHAvEN, Miss, Sept. %, 1887.
Uol., Jefferson Davis:
DEAR SIR have read with inter
est your "open letter" of Sept Z, ad
dressed to me, published in the Clar
ion of Sept. II and various papers ol
the 18th inst. Absence in the Stat'
of Arkansas on official duty has pre-
vented an earlier response. AS refer
.nce is made to our private CORES
pondence to show cause for your ap
neal to the public, thereby creating
tbe impression that have been guilty
of personal discOurtesy, besides
strangely misconstruing your Texa'
letter, prefer to publish that part o
nv address to which you object and
your letter relating thereto in full
The public can then see the head and
front of my offending and the occa,
ii on of your "Open letter"
In the Times Democrat of Aug. II
there was Especial" from Brook
haven, Miss, giving account of an
anniversary celebration of the local
option election in Lincoln county, at
which addresses were delivered by
Judge Chrisman, Rev. j. II. Parish
and myself. The "specialn concluded
as follows:
Bishop Galloway spoke at length,
and i'm the course of some cheering
remarks OH the Texas election refer
red to the Davis letter as follows:
81 have only one regret about the
memorable contest in Texas. Not
so much that the amendment was
defeated, for that is only temporary
but that the great name of the most
distinguished Mississippian should
have been used in favor of the open
saloon and against moral reform
Though thoroughly national i'll my
convictions, glad that there is Il
star on the flag of our republic that
answers to the name of Mississippi,
have revered the genius and admired
the history of the Hon. Jefferson
Davis. 1t has been source of graft
tication that the chief of the lost cause
lives within the commonwealth that
honored him long and trusted hin
implicitly, and where the balmy
breezes of our coast may fan his aged
brow and the waves of the southern
gulf bathe his weary feet. While
neither forgetting nor apologizing fol
his part in the late conflict, that sew
cred for q season the two great seq
tions of our reunited country, l re-
call with pride his splendid services
to the nation from the day he led hi'
brave battalion on the plains of Blu
ena Vista tO-his regretful retirement
from a seat in the United States Sen
ate. And since the ever-tO- be -lamen
ted war between the States have ad
mired his quiet patience, his beautiful
resignation, has manly dignity and hi
sublime consciousness of unstainet
honor and uncolrupted integrity
But that his pen should have beer
betrayed into writing line agains
the reform of the age gives me grea
pain; and / the more regret it because
a great statesman, familiar with pro
found constitutional problems, should
have repeated the platitudes on per
sonal liberty which have been exploded
by the leading law writers of Amer
lea, and forever settled by the decis
ions of the Supreme Court of thu
United; States. i did hope that hi
stormy life would have a peaceful
close; that the sun would go dOwl
without fieck of cloud in the sky
but that unfortunate utteranee viii
obscure the radiance of his eventide
and leave shadow upon his memory
How sad that the last words of sol
dier, sage and christian should be
come the shibboleth of the sa
looms" "-~ q, r,'- 'i..4
Then followed the correspondence
BEAUvoIR, Miss. Aug. Is. 1887.
Rev. Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi:
MY DEAR SIR-The Times-DemO
crat of New Orleans, of the 11th inst.
published what purpOrts to be you
remarks in regard to the letter / wrot
to Ex-GOv. Lubbock of Texas, i
which it is referred to as being 81
favor of the open saloon and agains
moral reform" -.y
Again | am referred to as hayin
been "betrayed into writing q lin
against the reform of the age" and a
the close you are represented as re
ferring to my words as having "be
come the shibbOleth of the saloons.
The high respect entertain for yot
both personally and as a dignitary
the Methodist Church South, renders
painful for me to be thus criticised b
you. | can bnt believe you have a1
eepted some Misrepresentation
what wrote instead of the text {
the letter itself. / trust you vii
therefore, pardon me for asking 70
10 mark on the printed copy of th
lhciosed letter passages which to you
mind Justify the remarks you are II